Laputa: Castle in the Sky

At the very start we are introduced to Sheeta (voiced by Anna Paquin), a young girl who is being transported by the military until their airship is attacked by a gang of air pirates. Taking this opportunity to escape, Sheeta knocks out Muska (voiced by Mark Hamill), her captor, and climbs out of the window. It's probably not the brightest move when you're onboard an airship, and sure enough she loses her grip and plummets through the sky until a strange stone around her neck lights up and slows her descent. This is where Pazu (voiced by James Van Der Beek), a boy from a mining town catches her before she floats down the mining shaft. All this time she is unconcious though when she awakes the following morning she doesn't seem to be that startled to be in strange surroundings. We learn Pazu's father was an adventurer who discovered the long lost floating city Laputa - the only surviving floating city from long ago; however what we don't learn is how his father died after he'd been ridi... Read more